danielmiessler.com » Nature http://danielmiessler.com grep understanding Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:25:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 TIL: Cousin Means Common Ancestor http://danielmiessler.com/blog/til-cousin-means-common-ancestor http://danielmiessler.com/blog/til-cousin-means-common-ancestor#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:35:21 +0000 Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/?p=11459 Interesting. I just now learned that cousin technically means “shares common ancestor” rather than “child of parent’s brother”. I’m not sure how I went this long without knowing that. Credit to 23andMe for forcing me to learn this.

]]> http://danielmiessler.com/blog/til-cousin-means-common-ancestor/feed 0 Landscapes, by Garry Tan http://danielmiessler.com/blog/landscapes-by-garry-tan http://danielmiessler.com/blog/landscapes-by-garry-tan#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 06:16:26 +0000 Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/landscapes-by-garry-tan

Landscapes: Volume Two from Dustin Farrell on Vimeo.

]]> http://danielmiessler.com/blog/landscapes-by-garry-tan/feed 0 Bee Emergence http://danielmiessler.com/blog/bee-emergence http://danielmiessler.com/blog/bee-emergence#comments Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:38:06 +0000 Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/bee-emergence
I’ve used the example of the bee before. One could exhaustively study a honey bee for centuries and never see in the lone individual any of the behavior of a bee hive. it is just not there, and can not emerge until there are a mass of bees. A single bee lives 6 weeks, so a memory of several years is impossible, but that’s how long a hive of individual bees can remember. Humanity is migrating towards its hive mind. Most of what “everybody knows” about us is based on the human individual. Collectively, connected humans will be capable of things we cannot imagine right now. These future phenomenon will rightly seem impossible. What’s coming is so unimaginable that the impossibility of wikipedia will recede into outright obviousness.
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]]> http://danielmiessler.com/blog/bee-emergence/feed 0 Ducks in Water http://danielmiessler.com/blog/ducks-in-water http://danielmiessler.com/blog/ducks-in-water#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:14:56 +0000 Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/ducks-in-water
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Taken with my Nikon D7000.

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]]> http://danielmiessler.com/blog/ducks-in-water/feed 0 Dakotalapse of Earth’s Sky http://danielmiessler.com/blog/dakotalapse-of-earths-sky http://danielmiessler.com/blog/dakotalapse-of-earths-sky#comments Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:04:50 +0000 Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/dakotalapse-of-earths-sky
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I take your Bible and raise you nature.

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]]> http://danielmiessler.com/blog/dakotalapse-of-earths-sky/feed 1 Joplin Tornado: Wood vs. Concrete http://danielmiessler.com/blog/joplin-tornado-wood-vs-concrete http://danielmiessler.com/blog/joplin-tornado-wood-vs-concrete#comments Fri, 27 May 2011 11:13:44 +0000 Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/joplin-tornado-wood-vs-concrete
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Remarkable.

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]]> http://danielmiessler.com/blog/joplin-tornado-wood-vs-concrete/feed 2 A Pink Flower in Palo Alto http://danielmiessler.com/blog/a-pink-flower-right-outside-pinkberry-in-palo-alto http://danielmiessler.com/blog/a-pink-flower-right-outside-pinkberry-in-palo-alto#comments Sat, 23 Apr 2011 21:08:16 +0000 Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/a-pink-flower-right-outside-pinkberry-in-palo-alto
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Taken at Pinkberry – Stanford Shopping Center

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]]> http://danielmiessler.com/blog/a-pink-flower-right-outside-pinkberry-in-palo-alto/feed 0 A Mountain Shadow http://danielmiessler.com/blog/a-mountain-shadow http://danielmiessler.com/blog/a-mountain-shadow#comments Tue, 07 Dec 2010 06:20:37 +0000 Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/a-mountain-shadow
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Mt. Shasta’s shadow during sunrise, as seen from the top of Mt. Shasta.

Credit.

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]]> http://danielmiessler.com/blog/a-mountain-shadow/feed 2 Submarine Dive Finds Oil, Dead Sea Life at Bottom of Gulf of Mexico Near BP Spill Site | ABC News http://danielmiessler.com/blog/submarine-dive-finds-oil-dead-sea-life-at-bottom-of-gulf-of-mexico-near-bp-spill-site-abc-news http://danielmiessler.com/blog/submarine-dive-finds-oil-dead-sea-life-at-bottom-of-gulf-of-mexico-near-bp-spill-site-abc-news#comments Sun, 05 Dec 2010 08:57:06 +0000 Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/submarine-dive-finds-oil-dead-sea-life-at-bottom-of-gulf-of-mexico-near-bp-spill-site-abc-news

“It looks like everything’s dead,” University of Georgia professor Samantha Joye said.

In an exclusive trip aboard the U.S. Navy’s deep-ocean research submersible Alvin, ABC News was given the chance to observe the impact of this summer’s massive oil spill that most will never see.

The ocean floor appears to be littered with twigs, but Joye points out that they are actually dead worms and that Alvin is sitting on top of what is considered an 80-square mile kill zone.

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Criminal.

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Stunning.

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]]> http://danielmiessler.com/blog/thundercell/feed 2 Probably the Coolest Animal http://danielmiessler.com/blog/probably-the-coolest-animal http://danielmiessler.com/blog/probably-the-coolest-animal#comments Fri, 29 Oct 2010 18:30:56 +0000 Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/probably-the-coolest-animal
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Unbelievable.

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]]> http://danielmiessler.com/blog/probably-the-coolest-animal/feed 1 Half Moon Bay http://danielmiessler.com/blog/half-moon-bay http://danielmiessler.com/blog/half-moon-bay#comments Sat, 09 Oct 2010 01:19:41 +0000 Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/half-moon-bay

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]]> http://danielmiessler.com/blog/half-moon-bay/feed 0 Peregrine Falcon & Gos Hawk | BBC http://danielmiessler.com/blog/peregrine-falcon-gos-hawk-bbc http://danielmiessler.com/blog/peregrine-falcon-gos-hawk-bbc#comments Mon, 20 Sep 2010 05:33:34 +0000 Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/peregrine-falcon-gos-hawk-bbc
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Stunning.

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]]> http://danielmiessler.com/blog/peregrine-falcon-gos-hawk-bbc/feed 0 Everything Wrong With Our World is Natural http://danielmiessler.com/blog/everything-wrong-with-our-world-is-natural http://danielmiessler.com/blog/everything-wrong-with-our-world-is-natural#comments Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:41:22 +0000 Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/everything-wrong-with-our-world-is-natural Just a reminder: Our world is fucked up because nature made it that way. What progress we have made has been in direct opposition to that nature.

There exists something called the Moralistic Fallacy, which states that the evil that exists in the world could not have come from nature. It gives us mistakes like:

  1. Because warfare is wrong and tragic, it cannot be part of human nature.
  2. Because eating meat is violent and harms the environment, humans have no biological need for it.
  3. Since it is right to treat men and women as equals, the sexes must be biologically equal as well.

Reject this garbage. Put it out of your mind.

In the time before books and technology and civilization, there were no equal rights for men and women. Women were property. And there was no openness between different types of people; if some strange tribe showed up in your camp you killed their asses and did a chant about it. If a powerful man wanted a pretty girl that belonged to a weaker man, he bounced his head off of a rock and took her home.

This is no different than today’s world–not really. We all know women love big, strong assholes. We also know that men love blonde bimbo types. We also know that many politicians go to Washington to change it, and three vacation homes later they won’t return calls from regular people.

War is natural. Class warfare is natural. Racism is natural. Men cheating on their wives is natural. Strip clubs are natural. Wives screwing their powerful bosses is natural. It’s the way the world works. It’s built into us.

And it’s our job to fight this nature. It’s our job to cast off what we are and become something more.

This is just a reminder. Don’t be surprised by what you see. There is no perversion going on–only the natural flow of things. The evil, natural flow of things. ::

[ P.S. Two more nights in Vegas. ]

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]]> http://danielmiessler.com/blog/gorilla-friendship/feed 0 A Bird Taking Out a Deer http://danielmiessler.com/blog/a-bird-taking-out-a-deer http://danielmiessler.com/blog/a-bird-taking-out-a-deer#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 05:52:53 +0000 Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/a-bird-taking-out-a-deer birddeer

]]> http://danielmiessler.com/blog/a-bird-taking-out-a-deer/feed 0 Bird Hunts Goat: Damn Nature, You Scary http://danielmiessler.com/blog/bird-hunts-goat-damn-nature-you-scary http://danielmiessler.com/blog/bird-hunts-goat-damn-nature-you-scary#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:16:46 +0000 Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/bird-hunts-goat-damn-nature-you-scary

]]> http://danielmiessler.com/blog/bird-hunts-goat-damn-nature-you-scary/feed 0 Birds Build Awesome Way to Feed, Until… http://danielmiessler.com/blog/birds-build-awesome-way-to-feed-until http://danielmiessler.com/blog/birds-build-awesome-way-to-feed-until#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:47:53 +0000 Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/birds-build-awesome-way-to-feed-until

]]> http://danielmiessler.com/blog/birds-build-awesome-way-to-feed-until/feed 0 A Little Girl Goes Fishing http://danielmiessler.com/blog/a-little-girl-goes-fishing http://danielmiessler.com/blog/a-little-girl-goes-fishing#comments Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:19:24 +0000 Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/a-little-girl-goes-fishing Um, damn.

]]> http://danielmiessler.com/blog/a-little-girl-goes-fishing/feed 2 Cat Catches Bat in Mid Air http://danielmiessler.com/blog/cat-catches-bat-in-mid-air http://danielmiessler.com/blog/cat-catches-bat-in-mid-air#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:09:11 +0000 Daniel Miessler http://danielmiessler.com/blog/cat-catches-bat-in-mid-air That’s a remarkable jump, never mind the catch.

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